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- This disclosure relates generally to optical systems and elements as well as to image analysis, and more particularly to imaging systems with increased light collection efficiency creating optical aberrations that can be removed with a deblurring equalizer.
- Most imaging systems typically employ a single focus point, at which focusing is optimum. While such systems can result in a sharply focused image when the object to be imaged is at the focus point, such systems are typically sensitive to variations in the distance between the object to be imaged and the imaging system or more particularly its focusing lens. While it is well known to increase the depth of field of a well-focused lens system by decreasing the aperture of the system, that can severely decreases light collection efficiency, thereby possibly limiting the speed at which such a system can operate.
- Other techniques for imaging with an extended focusing depth have been contemplated. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,371,361, which is assigned to the same assignee as is this invention, discloses an imaging system having a soft-focus lens, which sacrifices the quality of mid-field focus to achieve near invariance of focus throughout a range of distances, in addition to equalization of the electronic image signal. As another example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,748,371 and related works by the inventors of that patent disclose a combination of particular optics (cubic phase mask) and digital signal processing to provide an in-focus response over a wide range of object distances. The cubic phase mask has an optical transfer function that is relatively insensitive to object distance over a predetermined range, and the digital signal processing is designed to undo the effects of the cubic phase mask on the optical transfer function (other than increased depth of field). The inventors of that patent claim that jointly designing complementary cubic phase mask and digital signal processing can result in imaging results not possible with optical elements only. However, a cubic phase mask is a complicated, asymmetric part that is expensive and cumbersome to fabricate. Moreover, the asymmetry of a cubic phase mask requires that the complementary digital signal processing be performed over two dimensions.
- The present invention provides improved imaging with increased light gathering efficiency over an extended depth of field.
- According to one embodiment, a system comprises an imager, a rotationally symmetric lens assembly, and a signal processor. The imager forms an electronic image of an object in a field of view. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly is disposed between the imager and the object. The lens assembly provides increased collection efficiency for a given depth of field, whereby the lens assembly causes aberration, compared to a well-focused lens. The signal processor is connected to the imager. The signal processor receives image data and forms one or more virtual scan line signals comprising samples taken from one or more lines across the image at arbitrary angles. The signal processor comprises a non-uniform scaler and an equalizer. The non-uniform scaler receives the virtual scan line signal and scales samples in the virtual scan line signal to generate a non-uniformly scaled virtual scan line signal. The equalizer receives the non-uniformly scaled virtual scan line signal and equalizes the non-uniformly scaled virtual scan line signal so as to at least partially compensate for the aberration caused by the lens assembly.
- According to another embodiment, an imaging system comprises an imager that forms an image of an object in a field of view, a rotationally symmetric lens assembly disposed between the imager and the object, and an equalizer. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly provides increased collection efficiency for a given depth of field, whereby the rotationally symmetric lens assembly causes aberration, compared to a well-focused lens. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly comprises a front negative lens, a rear positive lens, and an aperture positioned between the front and rear lenses. The equalizer, which is connected to the imager, receives image data and at least partially compensates for the aberration caused by the rotationally symmetric lens assembly.
- According to yet another embodiment, a method passes light from an object through a negative lens, blocks light from a periphery region of the concave lens while passing light from a central region of the negative lens, passes the light from the central region of the negative lens through a positive lens, forms an image of the object based on the light from the positive lens, generates a virtual scan line signal comprising samples taken from a line across the image, scales the samples of the virtual scan line signal by non-uniform amounts, and equalizes the non-uniformly scaled virtual scan line signal so as to at least partially compensate for blurriness caused by one or more of the lenses.
- Details concerning the construction and operation of particular embodiments are set forth in the following sections.
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FIG. 1 is diagram of a system according to one embodiment. -
FIGS. 2A and 2B are side views of two versions of the lens assembly ofFIG. 1 . -
FIG. 3 is a plot of the focus point versus lens radius for a well-focused lens and a lens according to one embodiment. -
FIG. 4 is a set of ray trace plots of a well-focused lens and a lens assembly according to one embodiment. -
FIG. 5 is a set of zoomed-in ray trace plots ofFIG. 4 . -
FIG. 6 is a modulation transfer function plot of a well-focused lens. -
FIG. 7 is a modulation transfer function plot of a lens according to one embodiment. -
FIG. 8 is a comparison of modulation transfer functions of a well-focused lens and a lens assembly according to one embodiment at a near field distance. -
FIG. 9 is a comparison of modulation transfer functions of a well-focused lens and a lens assembly according to one embodiment at another distance. -
FIG. 10 is a comparison of the total transfer function of a well-focused lens and a lens assembly according to one embodiment. -
FIG. 11 is a block diagram of one version of the signal processor ofFIG. 1 . - With reference to the above-listed drawings, this section describes particular embodiments and their detailed construction and operation. In general, the embodiments described below provide improved imaging over an extended depth of field without reducing aperture size and therefore without sacrificing light gathering efficiency caused by a reduced aperture size. The inventors have realized that in many imaging applications, the lens system need not provide diffraction-limited optical performance, but only provide sufficient performance for the given application. The required resolution of the lens is often limited by the resolution of the imager itself, dictated by the pixel size. Therefore, the lens designer is free to reduce the optical performance of a lens system in ways that do not detract from the total system resolution, yielding additional degrees of freedom in the design that can be used to enhance other more desirable properties, such as increased collection efficiency due to a larger aperture.
- As one skilled in the art will appreciate, certain embodiments may be capable of achieving certain advantages over the known prior art, including some or all of the following: (1) extended depth of field compared to systems characterized by a single focus point; (2) greater light collection efficiency; (3) faster repetitive imaging; (4) utilization of optical components that are simpler and less expensive to fabricate; and (5) axial symmetry, which simplifies equalization (e.g., one-dimensional equalization, rather than two-dimensional equalization). These and other advantages of various embodiments will be apparent upon reading the following.
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FIG. 1 is diagram of asystem 100 for forming an image of anobject 90, according to one embodiment. Theobject 90 may be anything, but in one preferred use, theobject 90 is an item upon which is printed an optical code, such as a bar code. Thesystem 100 comprises alens assembly 110, animager 130, and asignal processor 150. Thesystem 100 may comprise other components not illustrated. Thelens assembly 110 is rotationally symmetric lens with increased light collection efficiency with respect to a well-focused lens for a given depth of field. One version of thelens assembly 110 is described in greater detail below with reference toFIG. 2 . Theimager 130 forms an electronic image of theobject 90. Theimager 130 can be a digital camera, such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera or CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) camera, both of which form a rectangular two-dimensional array of pixels, which together constitute an electronic representation of the image. Each pixel location stores data indicative of the light intensity at that location of the image. The light intensity data for each pixel may be a color-coded vector (e.g., red-green-blue) or monochrome intensity (e.g., grayscale). -
FIGS. 2A and 2B are side views of two versions of thelens assembly 110. Thelens assembly 110 comprises a frontnegative lens 112, followed by aspacer 114, followed by a rearpositive lens 118. Thespacer 114, which may be a washer or something similar, defines anaperture 116, preferably circular in shape, through which light from the frontnegative lens 112 passes to the rearpositive lens 118 while blocking light from the periphery of the frontnegative lens 112. Thespacer 114 preferably has a thickness that establishes a desired spacing between thelenses lens assembly 110 and its components are axially or rotationally symmetric, they are inexpensive, simple to manufacture and assemble, and offer other advantages such as simplification of the signal processing of the image data, as discussed in greater detail below with reference toFIG. 11 . For example, thelenses lenses spacer 114 can be assembled in a hollow tube (not shown), which holds the components in place. The arrangement of lenses inFIGS. 2A and 2B provides under-corrected spherical aberration, which enables increased collection efficiency in providing a desired depth of field, or, stated differently, extends the depth of field for a given size lens aperture. - While the
lens assembly 110 shown inFIG. 2A illustrates a bi-concave frontnegative lens 112 and a bi-convex rearpositive lens 118, thelens assembly 110 may comprise any suitable arrangement of a negative lens followed by a positive lens that extends the depth of field. One alternative lens assembly is illustrated inFIG. 2B , in which the frontnegative lens 112 is plano-concave, and the rearpositive lens 118 is plano-convex. Hybrids of the arrangements illustrated inFIGS. 2A and 2B are also possible (e.g., one bi-curvature lens and one piano lens). - One advantage of the
lens assembly 110 over other types of arrangements that can provide an extended depth of field is that theaperture 116 can be made larger in thelens assembly 110. A larger aperture improves light collection efficiency, which in turn permits faster imaging. Thus, theimaging system 100 can accurately scan bar codes, for example, moving across the field of view at a higher speed than systems employing a well-focused lens and having a similar depth of field. The price paid for that increased collection efficiency is increased aberration with respect to a well-focused lens, requiring post processing of the collected image in some instances. - The
lens assembly 110 preferably has a generalized axicon focus function. In other words, thelens assembly 110's optical impulse response or point spread function is approximately constant as a function of object distance over a certain distance range. While thelens assembly 110 shown inFIGS. 2A and 2B comprise two optical elements and an aperture, alternative lens assemblies may include a greater number of elements or a smaller number of elements (e.g., a single axicon or generalized axicon lens). Thelens assembly 110 can also be said to be a soft-focus lens or can be said to introduces a rather large amount of spherical aberration. Thelens assembly 110 may introduce under-corrected spherical aberration or over-corrected spherical aberration, although under-corrected spherical aberration typically achieves better results. Thelens assembly 110 may also introduce chromatic aberration. - The exact prescriptions for the front
negative lens 112 and the rearpositive lens 118, as well as the spacing of the lenses from theaperture 116, and the size of the aperture can be determined using numerical optimization techniques. Given basic lens shapes or types, an ordering of optical elements, and performance specifications, such as field of view, depth of field, resolution within the field, etc., a computer programmed to perform lens design can determine inter-element spacings and lens prescriptions. For example, a lens assembly of the configuration ofFIG. 2B has been designed using the ZEMAX® optical design program and tested to prove the concept. In that prototype lens assembly, the frontnegative lens 112 was made of optical glass BK-7 with a radius of curvature of 6.2 mm (millimeters) and center thickness of 1.5 mm; thespacer 114 had a thickness of 0.45 mm and theclear aperture 116 had a diameter of 2 mm; the rearpositive lens 118 was made of optical glass SF-11 with a radius of curvature of 4.71 mm and a center thickness of 2.5 mm; the distance from the back surface of the rearpositive lens 118 and theimager 130 was 9.86 mm. That prototype lens assembly had a 20% modulation transfer function at the target plane at 1.5 cycles/mm at a target distance range from 25 mm to 200 mm. (All of the preceding numerical parameters are approximate.) In this example, the lens elements are spherical, but that need not be the case. In fact, aspheric lens surfaces may achieve even better results, due to the ability to better control aberrations of the final lens system, or to provide an equivalently performing lens system with fewer elements. - When designing optical systems, it is often convenient to start with a thin lens approximation for initial visualization. While refractive lenses have significant thickness, a thin lens is well approximated by a diffractive surface. Furthermore, to predict the performance of an imaging system, it is often convenient to trace the light rays in reverse, assuming that a point on the optical axis on the imager plane is a point source, and tracing the rays through the lens to the target. With these assumptions, a comparison of the
lens assembly 110 to a well-focused lens can be undertaken.FIG. 3 is aplot 300 of the distance from the lens (focal point on plot) versus the radius of an annular ring on the lens surface where light rays were emitted. The light rays of a well-focused lens all arrive at the same distance (7 inches inFIG. 3 ), as shown by theconstant curve 305, while the rays of thelens assembly 110 focus at different distances as a function of radius of the lens, as shown by thecurve 310. This is characteristic of under-corrected spherical aberration, where the outer portion of the lens focuses closer than the central (paraxial) region. -
FIG. 4 showsray plots lens assembly 110 is larger than the well-focusedlens 405 to achieve the same imaging results. The well-focusedlens 405 focuses all of the light rays at asingle target distance 408, while thelens assembly 110 focuses light rays at a wide range of distances. The result is a narrow band of relativelyfocused rays 410.FIG. 5 showsray plots regions FIG. 4 , respectively. Notice the rays of thelens 405 arrive at a single distance while rays from thelens assembly 110 are spread out in a configuration typical of under-corrected spherical aberration. - A common way to determine the resolution of an optical system is via the modulation transfer function, which measures an imaging system's ability to resolve spatial detail. An MTF plot displays modulation, (white-black)/white, of the image of a sinusoidal target versus spatial frequency (specified in cycles/mm or line pairs/mm, aka lp/mm). The MTF is unity at zero spatial frequency and typically decreases with increasing frequency, as the optical system blurs the target.
FIG. 6 shows aplot 600 of the MTF of the well-focusedlens 405 at five different distances from the lens. The lens is focused to 7 inches, represented bycurve 603 that has high resolution (constant MTF equal to one across the entire range of spatial frequency in this plot).Curves lens 405 was designed to provide 20% modulation (0.2 on graph) at 1.5 cycles/mm at the extents of the depth of field, namely 5 inches and 9 inches, for a total depth of field of 4 inches. The symmetric nature of this MTF plot (for example, 601 and 605 having the same value) is typical of a well-focused lens, and is evident from inspection of the light rays inFIG. 5 . -
FIG. 7 shows aplot 700 of a set of MTF curves 710 for thelens assembly 110 at the same distances from the lens, namely 5 inches to 9 inches in 1 inch increments. All of the MTF curves 710 are of a roughly similar shape, with a steep drop in modulation at low spatial frequencies (from 0 to 0.5 cycles/mm in this plot) and a gradual drop in modulation at high spatial frequencies (above 0.5 cycles/mm in this plot). This particular version of thelens assembly 110 was designed to have at least 20% modulation at 1.5 cycles/mm across the entire range of distances from 5 inches to 9 inches. This version of thelens assembly 110 has a focus versus radius of lens shown inFIG. 3 that follows the equation below: - A well-focused lens can also be modeled by a degenerate case of the previous equation. For example, the
lens 405 has the following parameters: R=0.045 inches, d1=7 inches, d2=7 inches, and E=1. One version of thelens assembly 110 has the following parameters: R=0.225 inches, d1=1 inch, d2=12 inches, and E=7. Therefore, thatlens assembly 110 fulfills the same resolution goals with an aperture that is fives times larger in diameter, which therefore collects 25 times more light since collection efficiency is proportional to the square of the lens diameter. -
FIG. 8 is aplot 800 comparing the MTF at the near-field distance of 5 inches of the well-focused lens 405 (curve 805) and the lens assembly 110 (curve 810). It can be seen that the shape of the MTF curves of the two lenses are very different, but both meet the design requirement of at least 20% modulation at 1.5 cycles/mm.FIG. 9 is aplot 900 comparing the MTF of the same lenses at a mid-field distance of 6 inches.Curve 905 from the well-focusedlens 405 has higher modulation thancurve 910 from thelens assembly 110, but they both exceed 20% modulation at 1.5 cycles/mm. - One advantage of the
lens assembly 110 over the well-correctedlens 405 can be appreciated more fully by referring to theplot 1000 inFIG. 10 . In that plot, each of the MTF curves 710 and the curves 601-605 has been multiplied by the aperture area (the square of the diameter) of each lens, yielding what could be called a Total Transfer Function (TTF), which takes into account the total amount of signal that can be captured with a given imager exposure time. The TTF curves in theplot 1000 have been normalized to the low frequency value of the well-correctedlens 405. Thecurves 960 of thelens assembly 110 can be seen to have a much larger TTF than well-focused lens curves 950. Significantly, at the design target of 1.5 cycles/mm,modulation 960 from lens 402 is at least 7.4 times larger thanmodulation 950 from lens 400 at all distances from 5 inches to 9 inches. Therefore, the lens 402 achieves equivalent depth of field with much larger collection efficiency. Those skilled in the art can appreciate that by a similar means, a lens can be designed that has larger depth of field than lens 400 at an equivalent aperture size by incorporating lens aberration as described herein. A similar design procedure, using an optical design program such as ZEMAX®, can be used to design refractive lenses with similar performance as shown in these graphs. - Because the
lens assembly 110 collects more useful light than a well-focused lens, it can be used to form images at a faster rate (i.e., lower frame exposure time) and thereby effectively image faster moving objects as they move across the field of view. Because the depth of field is extended, the effective viewing volume is increased. The result is an imaging system with higher performance, for example, a bar code reader with enhanced ability to scan bar codes in a larger scanning volume with higher throughput. The price paid for the extended depth of field is less modulation at high spatial frequencies (due to spherical aberration) as compared to a well-focused lens. This is evident by reference toFIG. 9 . That attenuation can be compensated with an equalizer to modify the overall transfer function of thelens assembly 110 and the equalizer to approach that of a well-focused lens across the entire depth of field. That compensation or equalization can be accomplished by thesignal processor 150. It is desirable to have the MTF be relatively constant versus distance, as shown inFIG. 7 , to enable equalization to be performed without the knowledge of the target distance. - The
signal processor 150 is preferably a digital signal processor (DSP), as shown inFIG. 11 . Thesignal processor 150 comprises a virtual scan line extraction module 152, anonuniform pixel gain 154, and anequalizer 156. The virtual scan line extraction module 152, which is optional, reads and/or assembles samples or pixels from theimager 130 lying along one or more lines across the image at arbitrary angles or in another desired scan pattern. The resulting ordered set of pixels is sometimes referred to as a “virtual scan line” because it is analogous to a signal generated by reflection of a moving laser beam spot as it scans across theobject 90. - The
nonuniform pixel gain 154, although also optional, can be advantageous in that it can suppress pixel nonuniformity that arises from such causes as differences in gain from pixel to pixel in theimager 130. If pixel nonuniformity is large and unsuppressed, then it can obscure the useful modulation in the image. For example, the useful modulation may ride on top of a nearly black part of the image and then on top of a nearly white part of the image, causing noise to be more significant in the white part than in the black part. As the equalizer amplifies high frequencies, in the attempt to restore the image to a more well-focused state, noise will be amplified as well. If the pixel nonuniformity noise is the dominant noise source, then the benefit gained from the increased aperture size will be exactly compensated by the increased noise due to pixel nonuniformity. If random noise is the dominant noise source, then increases in the signal level due to the increase in aperture size will exceed the amplification of noise due to the equalizer, yielding improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and more rapid imaging. Thenonuniform pixel gain 154 can compensate for that innate nonuniformity by providing more gain to pixels that are naturally blacker and less gain (even attenuation) to pixels that tend to be whiter. Thenonuniform pixel gain 154 is preferably an array of scale factors that are multiplied by the imager's intensity values on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Thenonuniform pixel gain 154 can be calibrated by using a uniform light source, preferably in conjunction with thelens assembly 110 so that any field loss caused by thelens assembly 110 can be taken into account when determining the scale factors that make up thenonuniform pixel gain 154. Typically, the effects of random noise (such as from the pixel amplifiers) dominate in black regions of the image. Pixel nonuniformity can be dominant over random noise in white regions, however. In white regions, shot noise (which is another type of random noise) due to the discrete number of photons making up the signal, can under some circumstances be dominant over pixel nonuniformity. Under these conditions, nonuniform pixel gain is less helpful, as the dominant noise sources are random. - The
equalizer 156 is a filter whose transfer function preferably approximates the inverse of the MTF of thelens assembly 110, so as to cancel or compensate completely or partially for the blurriness or aberration caused by thelens assembly 110. Equivalently, the equalizer may be the ratio of a desired lens MTF, such ascurve 905 and the actual lens MTF, such ascurve 910. In this case, the equalizer serves to create the same quality of image that would have been obtained with a lens ofMTF curve 905. This may be performed in order to reduce the gain of the equalizer at high spatial frequencies, and thus reduce the amplification of noise. Theequalizer 156 can be thought of as a high-pass filter, with unity gain at low frequencies and higher gain at high spatial frequencies. Unfortunately, noise is amplified at high spatial frequencies. But since the total collection is increased withlens assembly 110, the increased signal more than compensates for the increase in noise, yielding an increase in SNR, allowing for a reduced exposure time and higher product sweep speeds. It is desired that the MTF of thelens assembly 110 does not change appreciably as a function of distance, so theequalizer 156 can have a single, fixed transfer function. If the MTF changes significantly over distance, an equalizer can be chosen that matches the MTF at that distance, if the distance is known; alternatively, multiple equalizers can be tried in sequence or in parallel on the same image data and post processing can be used to determine which one yields the best result. - Typically the
equalizer 156 is implemented as a digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter. Such techniques for generating a FIR equalizer from a known transfer function are well known in the art, using such techniques as a windowed frequency sampling technique or Weiner filtering. - The
signal processor 150, and theequalizer 156 in particular, can be implemented either in hardware or software. They can exist in a variety of forms both active and inactive. For example, they can exist as one or more software programs comprised of program instructions in source code, object code, executable code or other formats. Any of the above formats can be embodied on a computer-readable medium, which include storage devices and signals, in compressed or uncompressed form. Exemplary computer-readable storage devices include conventional computer system RAM (random access memory), ROM (read only memory), EPROM (erasable, programmable ROM), EEPROM (electrically erasable, programmable ROM), flash memory and magnetic or optical disks or tapes. Exemplary computer-readable signals, whether modulated using a carrier or not, are signals that a computer system hosting or running a computer program can be configured to access, including signals downloaded through the Internet or other networks. Concrete examples of the foregoing include distribution of software on a CD ROM or via Internet download. In a sense, the Internet itself, as an abstract entity, is a computer-readable medium. The same is true of computer networks in general. - The terms and descriptions used herein are set forth by way of illustration only and are not meant as limitations. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many variations can be made to the details of the above-described embodiments without departing from the underlying principles of the invention. The scope of the invention should therefore be determined only by the following claims—and their equivalents—in which all terms are to be understood in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated.
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